... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 57) Summer 2009 Last| Contents| Next Issue 57 Lobster goes to the movies! Frost/Nixon Or, a load of old dick Anthony Frewin When Frost/Nixon first appeared at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London back in 2006 I wondered why on earth anyone would want to stage, to recreate, what was, essentially, a non-event. Why indeed? One can imagine mere actors relishing the opportunity to 'interpret' Frost and Nixon but who else would be interested? This does rather tend to underscore Gore Vidal's observation that the only people who really enjoy themselves in the theatre are those on the stage. Perhaps theatre is just ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 48) Winter 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 48 Nixon's Shadow: The History of An Image David Greenberg London: W.W. Norton and Co, 2004, p/back, £9.99 Reviewed by Michael Carlson A few years ago, during one of America's periodic re-evaluations of Richard Nixon, cartoonist Gary Trudeau showed Mike Doonesbury's young son watching the ex-president on television. After a panel's worth of contemplation, the boy asks, 'He's lying now, isn't he?' The parents beam with pride. 'A new generation recoils!' In this study of Nixon's image-making, and America's perception of it, David Greenberg recoils not at all. ...

... or an institution, which has already demonstrated unreliability and untrustworthiness, yet seeks to retain influence, and exercise power. Nixon's Nuclear Specter, by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball, deals with President Nixon's attempts to bring the war in Vietnam to a satisfactory conclusion. According to the authors of this detailed and thoroughly footnoted book, both Nixon and his foreign affairs adviser, Henry Kissinger, had concluded by late 1967 that the war was unwinnable. Nixon had been elected on a promise to bring the war to a quick conclusion. Yet the war dragged on for six more years: the United States expanded it to Laos and Cambodia, and even engaged in a mock nuclear ...

... program: 1) a devastating RFK-fed LIFE Magazine expose of LBJ's astounding corruption and 2) an RFK-nurtured Senate Rules Committee investigation into LBJ's habit of taking large bribes and kickbacks.’ This is true and has been discussed in these pages before. 'Roger Stone combines his decades of insider political ken with cutting edge JFK research to let you know what Richard Nixon, Henry Cabot Lodge, Barry Goldwater and the KGB all concluded: Lyndon Johnson orchestrated the assassination of John Kennedy.’ Nixon has not explicitly said this (and doesn't do so here), merely hinted at it. Stone doesn't quote Henry Cabot Lodge: he quotes Lodge's brother's version of Henry's opinion that the Mafia, the CIA and LBJ ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 26) December 1993 Last| Contents| Next Issue 26 Silent Coup: the Removal of Richard Nixon Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin Gollancz, London 1991 Pat Nixon, wife of Richard Nixon, died in June. The obituarist in the Independent of 23 June 1993, commented that 'she stood by him loyaly, convinced that he was the victim of an international plot involving double agents and the CIA.' Well, something like that. Mrs Nixon's death was announced only a week after Channel 4 TV's Dispatches series broadcast a Barbara Newman documentary, 'The Key to Watergate' (June 16), a light gloss on this book. When the ...

... Source #71, who is a retired CIA official- have communicated evidence to Plaintiffs' Counsel which constitutes probable cause to believe that the following facts are true regarding the Defendants in this case: 70.1. That, in late 1959, immediately after Fidel Castro drove Dictator Batista out of Cuba, former United States Vice President Richard M. Nixon established, and chaired, a Special Committee within the United States National Security Council with the express assignment of developing- and executing- a plan by means of which to mount a covert "Contra" war against the socialist government of Cuba, utilizing expatriate indigenous right-wing Cubans who had been loyal to dictator Batista. The objective of this ...

... this. If the call-girl ring was a CIA operation, why would the CIA risk blowing the cover of their people inside the 'Plumbers' to preserve it? In effect Hougan's thesis hinges on this proposition being true: it was more important to the CIA to maintain this call-girl ring than it was to keep their agents in place in the Nixon White House's most secret operation. And isn't this wholly implausible? If the call-girl ring was that important, why not just shut it down, or move it elsewhere? Hougan is actually claiming that the CIA left a totally illegal, potentially very embarrassing blown operation in place, relying on its agents inside the 'Plumbers' to (somehow ...

... the cover-up. So does Mary Jo. These are the actions of anti-matter.' 'Apparently, Teddy won't do it. Cancer espouses the perpetuation of cancer. It will never expose itself. Well, will you, Nader? Anti-matter. When anti-matter collides with matter- Zilch. It's here and it's waiting.... I elected Nixon- and the Mafia- not Nixon and Mitchell- the Mafia put an unlimited price tag on the murder of me and my family and my friends- then supposed to be a Yablonski-type wipe out- and since changed to a CIA type slow-torture die on the vine type of thing. They know how to hurt all right. I ...

... joke. When it comes to the Wilson Plot we can now say that MI5 are more guilty of 'myths and misunderstandings' than their critics. The USA and Chile During General Pinochet's recent detention in this country a good deal of newsprint was rightly devoted to his brutal treatment of political opponents. Rather less was said about the role of the Nixon administration in facilitating the downfall of democracy in Chile via the destabilisation of Allende's administration. This was strange because the Pinochet affair erupted here in the late autumn of 1998- not long after the release of documents which show beyond doubt Washington's determination to intervene in Chilean politics during the early 1970s. Two documents are especially interesting. The first ...

... 2]) For his efforts in this arena, Felt was indicted for 'conspiring to injure and oppress citizens of the United States'. (He was eventually convicted, slapped smartly on wrist, and fined.) It would appear, then, that Throat was not so much opposed to illicit break-ins and eavesdropping as he was to the Nixon Administration as such. In his June 2 article in the Post, outing his source, Woodward tells us that Felt regarded the Nixon White House as 'corrupt...sinister (a) cabal'. And this was before Watergate. Indeed, lest we miss the point, Woodward tells us that 'Felt thought the Nixon team were ...